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Sunday, March 15, 2020
Konstruktivists - (2009) Flowmotion Years 2xLP
Vinyl-on-demand – 069
Dark-Ambient / Ritual-Project Konstruktivists was formed by mastermind
Glenn Michael Wallis in 1981/82 out of the ashes of Heute. Around this
time - in the late 70's/early 80's Glenn Michael Wallis was heavily
involved with Throbbing Gristle, the U.K. pioneers of "Industrial".
Between 1980 and 1982 Glenn/Konstruktivists has recorded several tracks
of which one solo-tape and several Konstruktivists-Tapes found release
in extremely rare and limited edition on the legendary Tape-Label
Flowmotion. Almost 2 hours of those early works are compiled on this
double-Lp including his full solo-work (also released as Konstruktivists
Vol.1) as well as Tracks from Vol.2 and other tracks released between
1980 and 1982
Limp Wrist - (2017) Facades LP
La Vida Es Un Mus – 148
Nearly 20 years ago, Martin Sorrondeguy, frontman for Chicago DIY
hardcore legends Los Crudos, formed Limp Wrist, a confrontational
queercore band that also features members of underground punk staples
like Devoid Of Faith and Hail Mary. (They practice in Philadelphia, but
all four members live in different cities.) Over the years, Limp Wrist
have been only intermittently active; their last album was a self-titled
12″ that came out in 2009. But now, Limp Wrist have returned with a
frantic, pummeling new album called Facades. It’s raw, urgent old-school
hardcore, and the lyrics are defiantly, explicitly sexual. (One chorus:
“Come and get my seed!”) There’s also an entirely unexpected
development near the end of the album: House music! This record fucking
rules!
Leroy Troy - (1993) Backroads CS
Bos Records – none
I recently received three tapes from an unusual young performer. Unusual
in the sense that a very talented person chose to keep alive the music,
style and entertainment of one of the great old-timers. Leroy Troy has
patterned his show and performing after the first featured performer on
the Grand Ole Opry. Not a small feat but one this young man has done
admirably. If you have seen him on Hee Haw you can appreciate his Uncle
Dave Macon act — all the way down to the mannerisms and banjo tricks of
the old man. Unfortunately you can't see all of this on the cassette,
but all the rest is there. The Macon-style pickin', the songs and the
humor that comes through.
Lee Moses - (2019) How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972 CD
Future Days Recordings – 635
After reissuing his much sought-after Time and Place LP, many questions
still remained (Lee was a mysterious man!) – but the one asked most was,
“where’s “Bad Girl”?!” Not included on his lone LP, “Bad Girl” is an
undisputed Southern soul classic – arguably the song Lee Moses’ legacy
rests on. While we may never know all we wish we knew about the man
behind the music, we can finally complete the picture of his work. You
know – the tunes! And what tunes they are.
How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972 collects all of Lee Moses’ non-album singles and B-sides, plus three never-released tracks together for the first time ever. Most of the material here pre-dates 1971’s Time and Place, reflecting his initial bid for stardom via a series of now-legendary 45s recorded with Atlanta producer Johnny Brantley. As for the unreleased recordings – much like the man himself, little is known about them. What remains is an oeuvre that has become synonymous with raw and emotionally charged Southern soul. Essential listening for anyone with a heart.
How Much Longer Must I Wait? Singles & Rarities 1965-1972 collects all of Lee Moses’ non-album singles and B-sides, plus three never-released tracks together for the first time ever. Most of the material here pre-dates 1971’s Time and Place, reflecting his initial bid for stardom via a series of now-legendary 45s recorded with Atlanta producer Johnny Brantley. As for the unreleased recordings – much like the man himself, little is known about them. What remains is an oeuvre that has become synonymous with raw and emotionally charged Southern soul. Essential listening for anyone with a heart.
Lumpy And The Dumpers - (2016) Huff My Sack LP
ANTI FADE records – 031
“Numbing Agent”, a track from Huff My Sack, sees more of the excellent puerile and power punk from the Gateway City.
Released on Geelong label Anti-Fade, it’s come out just in time for the band’s upcoming ‘Layin’ Pipe in Oz’ Australian tour where the Dumpers will be playing a bunch of shows Down Under including a couple with Dumpers spin off band Cal and the Calories.
Nurse With Wound • Graham Bowers - (2011) Rupture CD
United Dirter – 093
This CD is the first collaboration of Steven Stapleton's Nurse With Wound and composer/sculptor Graham Bowers. It is, without doubt, one of the best things we have ever released. It's an extremely unnerving, but also hauntingly moving listening experience.The work is an attempt to create a musical illustration of the "goings-on" in the brain during the last hour and three minutes of a life after suffering a major stroke. It is multi-layered and is primarily concerned with the internal chaos caused by the loss of control of thought processes, responses and consequential actions, with all types of incoherent disjointed memories and present real time events - as well as moments of lucidity, panic and fear - clashing, merging and evolving.It's essentially one long piece, but is presented in three parts:
1/ "...a life as it now is 2/...is not what it was 3/...and will never be again". It arrives packaged in a beautiful 6 panel gloss laminated digipac, featuring artwork from both Babs Santini and Graham Bowers. The edition is limited to just 1000 copies in this format.
Rupture
A collaboration between Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) and Graham Bowers
Tracks : (i)"...a life as it now is, (ii) ... is not what it was, (iii) ... and never will be again"
This work is an attempt to create a musical illustration of the ‘goings-on’ in the brain during the last hour and three minutes of a life after suffering a major stroke.
The piece is multi-layered and is primarily concerned with the internal chaos caused by the loss of control of thought processes, responses and consequential actions, with all types of incoherent disjointed memories and present real time events – as well as moments of lucidity, panic and fear – clashing, merging and evolving.
When the complexity of the human brain’s retained information and the inherent properties which constitute a‘life’, an ‘individual’, a ‘person’, are catastrophically damaged after blood – ‘life’s fuel’ – ruptures the previously organised and essential control centres, absolute mayhem follows.
The cold, hard indisputable truth, and one that we all have no alternative but to accept, is that:
“… a life as it now is, is not what it was, and never will be again”.
Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers
The collaboration is a result of the chance meeting of Nurse With Wound's Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers, both artists were appearing
at Bangor Sound City's first art/sound event 'Wet Sounds' curated by Joel Cahen located at the Bangor Swimming Pool, North Wales, in January 2011. Both were admirers of each others past works and felt that a collaboration on a new piece of work could be an interesting and exciting prospect, consequently 'Rupture' is the first full length work, and is released as a Double Vinyl album/LP, a CD and Download. The Vinyl album and CD are to be released through the Dirter.
Graham Bowers : www.red-wharf.com
Death Kneel - (2019) Adaptive Emotional Use LP
Total Black – 128
"Death hides the angels it makes in blue skies"
Mastered by Grant Richardson.
Additional processing by Moss Harvest.
Thanks to Rita Mikhael, Brett Wagg, and Matt Harrison.
Mastered by Grant Richardson.
Additional processing by Moss Harvest.
Thanks to Rita Mikhael, Brett Wagg, and Matt Harrison.
Lumpy & The Dumpers - (2014) Collection LP
Erste Theke Tonträger – 023
Lumpy And The Dumpers - (2017) ...Those Pickled Fuckers 12''
Lumpy Records – 087
Over seven tracks of gritty discomfort punk, bulging with bodyhorror blues and puerile manic imprecations, Lumpy and the Dumpers revel and writhe in the effluvia of life and the rude pangs and oozings of flesh.
Revivifying the dead metaphor of the earworm, these songs burrow snugly into your brain, distorted sing-song playground melodies, like hell dimension children's show theme songs, exploding with weird turns and twists, from the blaring horns of Someone's In The House's paranoiac stomp, to the wild malfunctioning chiptune screams cutting through Attention and the sinister whoops and crashes of the oddly mellow Clatter Song, Those Pickled Fuckers is an album only Lumpy and the Dumpers could've made.
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